Jump ship with whatever you can grab before leaving. Cover your legal rights for future. Slb has lit if forefingers with some visa from a place where free speech is impossible. Those are the people who are very scared. Slb uses its muscle power through the lawyers to protect its management. It’s yet to see how many their lawyers can save. Good luck. I am guessing this post will be deleted by the request from SLB very soon.
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One of the greatest mistakes was the purchase of Pathfinder. This is not news, they already admitted it. They should have bought just Smith bits if they wanted a complete drilling portfolio. Buying Pathfinder for the sake of market share sunk the quality of our operations, our perception from our clients, and later propagated that poor quality into the land "D&M" parts of the business. I was, from the beginning, opposed to it, but of course, the greedy people from HQ wanted more market share at all costs. That brought us into acquiring personnel that didn't want to be trained, poor HSE and execution, old tools, old software, and most of all, a culture that did not fit at all with big blue. Managers didn't know what to do, support personnel was lost between two sets of standards and finally, market share not actually growing. I left SLB, sadly, in 2015 so I don't know how the Cameron integration went in the end.
Guys, Notice any negative comment about Scumbooger is immediately downvoted and soon removed. SchlumberDump HR controls the content here by filing continuous complaints to the forum administrators.
Aside from Scumbooger HR, there is one particular Scumbot from Sugarland who is responsible for 100’s of personnel being released who is consistently here countering all Dumberger negativity.
I agree. Even last year, I saw some of the people being released, some serious players and very smart people. When SLB starts releasing good people and keeping c-appy people (managers) just because they know somebody then it maybe time to start looking elsewhere. My two cents. I sold my stock, rolled over my 401K, took the lump sum payment roll over to my 401K. I have absolutely no ties to SLB anymore.
@zoe+14QBBfPK Very well said. I will add some to it. Going digital is not bad. But that need to be excited well by relatively competent people. But the useless managers who have built their life in slb who haven’t seen what digital means. They listen to external contractors and spend hell lot of money. Few years later they wanted to be digital heavy Comoany but realized that that their digital journey was like a camel ride. This speaks a lot about their understanding and execution capabilities. What do you say? It’s not programmers fault. It’s the managers who hired those programmers and asked them what to do.
SLB Used to be a good solid technology company when I worked for them in the 90’s. They used to higher the best of best from all over the world from good schools and good GPA. They used to be the training ground for the entire oil and gas industry. It is hard to see all good people are disappearing and the company slowly dying. I hope they can fix their problems and come back up again soon.
That’s the slb way
You have managers, you have workers. Profit goes down, you cut workers and keep managers.
Profit goes down once again, you have less workers to make money. And instead of solving problem, you cut workers once again and keep managers. And cycle repeats. Meantime somebody cheats you that you can be Amazon of oilfield. You probably understand that it cannot be true, but you do not have any choice. You spend more money to become a digital company, cut more workers to hire programers. Finally you have only few workers, many managers and many programers. Profit disappears. What do you do now? Cut more workers.